Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.