To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.