The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.