Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

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