Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

Cunning is strength withheld.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.