Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Education should be as broad as man.