Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?