Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for life. By keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience, and what...

To have a quiet mind is to possess one’s mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one’s self.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

In the long run a man becomes what he purposes, and gains for himself what he really desires

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than...

New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be...

Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.