If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.