War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.