The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

I am a part of all I have seen.