I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.