No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.