Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

The temple of art is built in words.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.