Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.