The eye is the best of artists.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.