American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Do what you're afraid to do.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.