That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.