"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."
"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."