Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.