Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.