It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he read more

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.

Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than
I now am. Just as the read more

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than
I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present
perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect
and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I
am not deficient.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of the
real with the ideal never goes read more

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of the
real with the ideal never goes unpunished.