Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.