Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.