Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.