"The falling drops at last will wear the stone."

"Such evil deeds could religion prompt."

"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."

"If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets."

"Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it."

"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't."

"Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp."

"An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation."

"If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking."

"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."