The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

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.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.