Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.