American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Genius is its own end.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

Fate is unpenetrated causes.