There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.