The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

We make war that we may live in peace.

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.