Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.