What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.
One life – a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Bright, heroic, tender, true and noble was that lost treasure of my heart, who faithfully accompanied me in all the rocky ways and climbings; and I am forever poor without her.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path... A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do... To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
The history of the world is but a biography of great men.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.
Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.