The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.