Whatever betide, every misfortune must be overcome by enduring it.
—Virgil.
“Never argue with a man who talks loud. You couldn’t convince him in a thousand years.”
The new science perceives that instincts and aspirations in the mind are facts of nature that must be interpreted and accounted for by reason as truly as a stone in the hand.
—Newell Dwight Hillis.
Work and love: that is the body and soul of the human being. Happy he where they are one.
—Auerbach.
You picture to yourself the beauty of bravery and steadfastness. And then some little, wretched, disagreeable duty comes which is your martyrdom, the lamp for your oil; and if you do not do it, your oil is spilled.
—Phillips Brooks.
“Watch the thought you hold for the neighbor who is yet living in the consciousness of truth as you understand it. As you are taught of the Spirit, so will he be taught in the way best adapted to him.”