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

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.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.