Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.