If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.