The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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.

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.