Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

True love is the parent of humility.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.