Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

A noble book! all men's book!

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.