Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.