I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.