... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

One should not run on a new road.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.