If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

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

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.