Much of command is the ability to take command.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.