Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.