Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.