Renew thyself completely each day.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

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

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

A goal is a dream taken seriously.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but profane green fields and dusty roads, and opportunity to live as holy a life as you can, where the sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.