You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.