It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
Pure motives do not insure perfect results.
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.