Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.