There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Be not a slave of words.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.