There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

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.