Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

The king is the man who can.

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.