Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

God enters by a private door into every individual.