"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”

“For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.”

“The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.”

“The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.”

“With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.”

“A career is born in public - talent in privacy.”

“Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.”

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”

“Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.”