The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

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.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.