In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.