If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Among them, but not of them.

Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.

And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimski; for he driveth furiously.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."

called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.