People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

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.