The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.