Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.