It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.