A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
All life is an experiment.
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
The simplest words, – we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
Our best thoughts come from others.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.