You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.