The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.