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

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

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

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

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