It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.