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

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Preaching is truth through personality.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

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

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.