Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.