The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?