Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Let us live, while we are alive!

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.