Carve every word before you let it fall.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.