Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settl…

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great o…

A church should be judged not on its seating capacity, but on its sending capacity.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make…