Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

Love is the essence of God.