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

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.