A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.