The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.

Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,
magic, and power in it.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,
magic, and power in it.

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody
else has thought.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody
else has thought.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
pillow-I have still joy in read more

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
pillow-I have still joy in the midst of all these things.