Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.