Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.