If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.