The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.