“There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.”
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
“Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.”
“People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.”
“Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.”
“One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.”
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
“It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.”
“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”
“Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away.”
“Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.”
“At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.”
“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”
“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.”