Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.