Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.