Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.