We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.