I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.