To Think Great Thoughts You Must Be

These Are The Hands Whose Sturdy Labor Brings The Peasant's Food, The Golden Pomp Of Kings; This Is The Page Whose Letters Shall Be Seen, Changed By The Sun To Words Of Living Green; This Is The Scholar Whose Immortal Penspells The First Lesson Hunger Taught To Men; These Are The Lines That Heaven-commanded Toil Shows On His Deed, - The Charter Of The Soil!

Young Man, The Secret Of My Success Is That An Early Age I Discovered That I Was Not God.

We Are All Sentenced To Capital Punishment For The Crime Of Living, And Though The Condemned Cell Of Our Earthly Existence Is But A Narrow And Bare Dwelling-place, We Have Adjusted Ourselves To It, And Made It Tolerably Comfortable For The Little While We Are To Be Confined In It.

Liberty Is Often A Heavy Burden On A Man. It Involves The Necessity For Perpetual Choice Which Is The Kind Of Labor Men Have Always Dreaded.

Certitude Leads To Violence. This Is A Proposition That Has An Easy Application And A Difficult One. The Easy Application Is To Ideoologues, Dogmatists, And Bullies--people Who Think That Their Rigtness Justifies Them In Imposing On Anyone Who Does Not Happen To Suscribe To Their Particular Ideology, Dogma Or Notion Of Turf. If The Conviction Of Rightness Is Powerful Enough, Resistance To It Will Be Met, Sooner Or Later By Force. There Are People Like This In Every Sphere Of Life, And It Is Natural To Feel That The World Would Be A Better Place Without Them!