Make youself necessary to someone.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.