A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.