Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.