It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.