And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Fate loves the fearless.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.