Great Throughts Treasury

"That which makes the difference between one man and another – between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant – is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once formed and then death or victory."

"A man beaming with enthusiasm naturally accomplishes his works easily and quickly. "

"A combination of righteous knowledge and righteous actions help us to earn wealth. "

"We know nothing important. In the essentials we are still as wholly a mystery to ourselves as Adam was to himself."

"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."

"To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."

"There was something in the waste stream that wasn't supposed to be there or was there without the knowledge of the company that generated the waste."

"My aim is juxtaposition and surprise, but also, while I have an affinity for the organic form, I can’t help the way my brain works, which is logically and in a very structured manner. I’m a sort of free-flowing control freak."