Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

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

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.