To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.