Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.