To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.