The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.