Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Language is the archives of history.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.