The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.