Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.