Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.