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

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

A true friend is forever a friend.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.