We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.