Fate loves the fearless.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can’t write, can surely review.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

On Lincoln: “A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.