They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.