Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.