I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.