 A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. |
| To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. |
| Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. |
| To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. |
| There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. |
| To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another. |
| I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. |
| There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid. |
| There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. |
| He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. |
| Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. |
| It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. |
| Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. |
| A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. |
| There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. |
| There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. |
| Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. |
| It is not down in any map; true places never are. |
| There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. |
| To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. |
