the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.

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.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.