“A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~”

“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”

“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”

“I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important...”

“You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required th...”

“An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.”

“Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.”

“Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the...”

“A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.”