In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.