Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.