There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

Be larger than your task.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.