I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.