News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.