A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

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