The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.