There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.