Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.

There is but one way of rejecting To-morrow, and that is to die.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds; and if you wait a little, the wind will shift, and the moon will look out, and you will see that you were walking straight all the while, though you thought you had lost the road.

There are a good many hard times in this life of ours, but we can always bear them if we ask help in the right way, and try to do our duty bravely; for though the burdens are heavy, they grow lighter as we share them, and the road, though rough at first, gets easier to the feet that keep on walking.

Write something for us, and never mind the rest of the world; put the truth you know into it, and the love you have felt, and the little fun that keeps us alive, and you will find that hearts will answer to hearts, and the world will take what is good, and let the rest go.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights; the light of all lights in this dark world is Love, and it shines most when men and women stand together and keep faith.

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—‘Wait and hope.’

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.

For all evils there are two remedies: time and silence.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.