Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.