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

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

Every advantage has its tax.