There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

There are remedies for all things but death.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.