The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.