Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.