"The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance…"

"The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy."

"The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted wit…"

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."

"No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fa…"

"When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imag…"

"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's."

"When Antipater demanded fifty children as hostages from the Spartans, they offered him, in their stead, a hundred men…"

"The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment."