The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.