Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

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

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Resolve and thou art free.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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.

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.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.