Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.