I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.