He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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.