The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest.

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.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.