But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Great men are sincere.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?