All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.