God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.