You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.