There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.