This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows