Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.