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"Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know."

"The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them."

"Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair."
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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear."


"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."


"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."
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