The obscurest epoch is to-day.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

No man is useless while he has a friend.