You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.