Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.
Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroide...
Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in yo...
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything kno...
Life is a romantic business but you have to make the romance.
Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some...