Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.