Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.