It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

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

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.