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

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.