When all else is lost, the future still remains.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.