Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

The soul knows no persons.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.