Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.- Thomas Carlyle
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Work alone is noble.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
