I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.