Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.