Reality is what I see, not what you see.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.