Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
Life always take on the character of its motive.
Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.