We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.