I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

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

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.