What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

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!

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.