Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

All true work is sacred.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.