The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.