We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

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

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.