“Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.”

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

“We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.”

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

“What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”