If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.