The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.