Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.