Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?