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.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Calmness is always godlike.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.