The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.