The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Language is the archives of history.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.