Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
There is no wealth but life.
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.