Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.