I love victory, but I love not triumph.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack