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

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Your little child is the only true democrat.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.