Where there is nothing, there is God.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

What can I but enumerate old themes?

What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.