America is another name for opportunity.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.