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

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.