In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

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

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.