The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere