The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.