To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.