Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
One must be something, in order to do something.
People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.