I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

God is action - let us be like God.

Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.