Intellect--brain force.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.