No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.