The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.