All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.