Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.