The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.