Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.