All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.