For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

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.

Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

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.