In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

Ideals are the world's masters.