Quotes

He had in fact most of the qualities that make a great scientist: an innate curiosity and perceptiveness regarding natural phenomena, insight into the

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as Fail.

Take Washington, Franklin, Wilberforce, and all the master spirits that have found a name and place upon the page of history. They took “I

In the beginning there is man, alone with his thought, his soul, and his professional spirit, capable of intuitions that are at once great

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears,

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.