I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

I believe in fate, never in chance.