One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards