There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.