If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

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

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.