When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.

On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!

No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Don't just get something out of church, put something into it.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.

God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.

Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.

To forgive calls upon our love-- to forget calls upon our strength.

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.