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.

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

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.

I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.

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

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.