Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

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.

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.

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.