If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.