Have the courage to act instead of react.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?