“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
“In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization
“Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him