If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.