The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.