The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

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

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.