Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.