Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.