The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

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

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.