All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.