Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.