The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.