We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

An index is a great leveller.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.