"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."

"I hear the wind among the trees playing the celestial symphonies."

"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining"

"The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air."

"Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!"

"Out of the shdows of night The world rolls into light."

"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

"Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead."

"Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."

"Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend."

"In the long run men hit only what they aim at."

"I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions"

"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."

"We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time."

"Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem."

"Art is long, and Time is fleeting."

"And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid."

"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all."

"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"

"Youth comes but once in a lifetime"

"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

"A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts."