If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.