You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.