Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man-the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency-and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency-and a vice.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

The human race is a race of cowards: and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.