I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.