Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

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

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

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

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.