Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
The essence of justice is mercy.
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
