To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.