Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.