No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Is not light grander than fire?

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.