There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.