A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.