He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.