Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.