Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

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

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

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.