Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.