It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.