Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

I like man, but not men.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.