Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.