Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.