What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.