If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.