Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Where there is no vision a people perish.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.