Heartbreak is life educating us.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.