Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.