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

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

This is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent Exeter-Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world! Not that he should eat pumpkin with never such felicity in the West India Islands is, or can be, the blessedness of our Black friend; but that he should do useful work there, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.