A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.