Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.