There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Religion implies revelation.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.

Idleness is paralysis.