A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.