Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.