Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.