A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

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

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.