There is properly no history, only biography.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.