Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

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

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.