There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.