“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.”

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Evil is only good perverted.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile.

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.

We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.

As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.