There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Shallow men believe in luck.