Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.