A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

America is a country of young men.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

A man is known by the books he reads.