“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation
“When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries
“This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character
“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.
“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success
“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some