"Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!"
- James Russell Lowell
"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light."
"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction."
"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."
"Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons."
"Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is."
"Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge."