The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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

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

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.