You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.