A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

There is no harm in a man's cub.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.