It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

Art is a jealous mistress.