A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.