The mathematics of high achievement

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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