Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.