The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.