It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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!

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

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