Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Children always turn to the light.
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
In oratory the will must predominate.
No one but a fool is always right.
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
Smiles are the language of love.
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.