I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.