“That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.”

“Although to restless and ardent minds, morning may be the fitting season for exertion and activity, it is not always at that time that hope is strongest or the spirit most sanguine and buoyant.”

“the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown...”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.”

“And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.”

“There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited”