I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.