The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

The devil has his elect.

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

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

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.