Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.