The crest and crowning of all good, life’s final star, is Brotherhood.
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.