Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.

Christ within us, the hope of glory.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.