But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.