When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.