Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

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

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

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

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 mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

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.