Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

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

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.