There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.