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

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

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

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!