I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.