Of cheerfulness, or a good temper – the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
Accept your genius and say what you think.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
The force of character is cumulative.