Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced.

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.