It is not worth while to consider whether a truth be useful—it is enough that it is a truth. - John Lancaster Spalding

Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.

Not to be able to utter one’s thought without giving offence, is to lack culture.

Moral education is the development of individuality, and individuality can not be developed by formulas and mechanical processes: it is the work of the master who brings to his task a genuine and loving interest in the individual.