For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

Fear is faithlessness.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.