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

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.]

May you live all the days of your life.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Most people would rather die than think: many do.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

We must not measure the reality of love by feelings, but by results. Feelings are very delusive. They often depend on mere natural temperament, and the devil wrests them to our hurt. A glowing imagination is apt to seek itself rather than God. But if you are earnest in striving to serve and endure for God's sake, if you persevere amid temptation, dryness, weariness, and desolation, you may rest assured that your love is real.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass But still remember what the Lord hath done.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

Trials, temptations, disappointments all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.