Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.