As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.