They must upward still, and onward,
Who would keep abreast of truth.
—James Russell Lowell.
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
—George Eliot.
Good to forgive, best to forget.
—Browning.
What reason have we to think any other station in the universe more sanctifying than our own? There is none, so far as we can tell, under the more immediate touch of God, none whence sublimer deeps are open to adoration, none murmuring with the whisper of more thrilling affections or ennobled as the theater of more glorious duties. Those to whom the earth is not consecrated will find their heaven profane.
—Dr. James Martineau.
Whoever can influence men should strive to make them more courageous, more enduring, more hopeful, simpler, more joyful.