One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

All writing comes by the grace of God.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.