Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.