My books are friends that never fail me.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.