For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.