Fate loves the fearless.
~ James Russell Lowell
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
A wise man travels to discover himself.
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, ’Neath every one a friend.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Light is the symbol of truth.
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
