What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.