Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.