I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.