I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.