I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.