When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.