The world we live in is but thickened light.

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.