The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.

The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

Sometimes I feel better around you. I kind of like your face' -Nick

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Climbing had captured my soul.

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.