Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.