 All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. |
| Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. |
| The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. |
| Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. |
| No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. |
| Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. |
| Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. |
| There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. |
| It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. |
| Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. |
| Not failure, but low aim, is crime. |
| To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. |
| Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. |
| Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. |
| Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. |
| Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. |
| A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. |
| Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. |
| If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. |
| Light is the symbol of truth. |
