MEMORY is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.
HOPE is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
THE FIRES OF THE NEXT WORLD sustain the same relation to churches that those in this world sustain to insurance companies.
Now and then there arises a man who on peril's edge draws from the scabbard of despair the sword of victory.
The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.