There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

My books are friends that never fail me.

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.