Learn not only by a comet’s rush, but by a rose’s blush.
—Browning.
When the Kingdom is once found, life ceases to be a plodding, and becomes an exaltation, an ecstasy, a joy.
—R. W. Trine.
Immortality will come to such as are fit for it; and he who would be a great soul in the future must be a great soul now.
—Emerson.
There is no kind of bondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man’s character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.
—Hamilton W. Mabie.
The vision of things to be done may come a long time before the way of doing them appears clear. But woe to him who distrusts the vision.
—Jenkin Lloyd Jones.