The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.