You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.