Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.