May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Love is the law, love under will.