When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.