It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.