The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.