The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.