It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life as the ruling principle of the universe, is Christian.
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
