Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.