What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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