The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

If you think you can do it, you can.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.