Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

Let us be merciful as well as just.

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.