It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.