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.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.