Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o’er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
There’s nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.
Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.