55 Quotes by George Edward Woodberry

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.