I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.