Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.