"This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."
"If you would create something,you must be something."
"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."