All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

We are ordained to work for the increase of the government of Christ

They’re so brave, " she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that, " she said scornfully.

In a great mistake.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

I only see what I want to see. Winners see winning, Losers see losing. You are what you think you are.

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

We are all different and that's okay.