When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We can only love what we know.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

Forever is composed of nows.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.