Fine Manners Need The Support Of Fine

Every Man Alone Is Sincere. At The Entrance Of A Second Person, Hypocrisy Begins. We Parry And Fend The Approach Of Our Fellow-man By Compliments, By Gossip, By Amusements, By Affairs. We Cover Up Our Thought From Him Under A Hundred Folds.

Eloquence Is The Appropriate Organ Of The Highest Personal Energy.

We Cannot Overstate Our Debt To The Past, But The Moment Has The Supreme Claim.

America Is A Country Of Young Men.

What I Must Do Is All That Concerns Me, Not What The People Think. This Rule, Equally Arduous In Actual And In Intellectual Life, May Serve For The Whole Distinction Between Greatness And Meanness.