“The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.”

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

Every noble work is at first impossible.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

I never liked sleeping in the dark. I have, like, twinkle stars around my bed, so it’s not so bad.

Pain is as dark as it is deep. But just like anything that receives enough light, it too will fade over time and become something, a little less ominous, and a little more hopeful.

Hope begins in the dark.

Light is much more than the absence of darkness. And you, my love, are much more than the absence of him.

The touch of your pale skin illuminates my darkness.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.