I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.