He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
At the devil’s booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
A wise man travels to discover himself.
Did man e’er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim’s scrip for me, For Christ’s sweet sake and charity.
It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.