Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

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.

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

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.