Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

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

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.