Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him - which may be regarded by others as being useless - yet it is his dream, it is his lodestar, it is his master. That, whatever it is, seized upon me, made me its servant, slave - induced me to set aside the other ambitions a trail of glory in the heavens, which I followed, followed with a full heart. ...When once I am convinced, I never let go.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.