We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.