Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.