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

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

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

The finest poetry was first experience.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.