If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well. -Nellie Curtiss.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. .

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.

Be merry if you are wise.

If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be and could be, he will become as he ought to be and could be.

This story will never go down.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.