To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.