One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.