A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

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 deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.