Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

I accept reality and dare not question it.