There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.