A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.