The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

We are wiser than we know.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.