Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.