All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

The surest poison is time.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Labor is God's education.