When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.