“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“Error is discipline through which we advance”

“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost”

“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life”

“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene”