Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.