Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.