God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations.

...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief.

Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.