Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

He who is resolute conquers grief.