“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
“All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.
“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
“Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again
“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth