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

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

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.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

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

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

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