The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.