Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.