The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.

Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.