The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.