God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.