Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.