Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.