Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.