Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.
I can do small things in a great way.
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.
Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.
Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.