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.

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.