Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
Man is the dwarf of himself.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.