Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.