Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."

Your success and happiness lie in you.