History after all is the true poetry.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.