Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

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

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.