America is another name for opportunity.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.