Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.