No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

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