Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?