To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

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

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.