No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.