To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.