Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

Man is more than constitutions.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!