No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.