There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.