It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.

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.

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

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