It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.