The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.