A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.