Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

New occasions teach new duties.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.