Any one who can make the people of the United States believe they rule. Strong people are not so much advertised by their loving friends as by their rabid enemies. Instead of hitching your wagon to a star, suppose you just get in touch with the good-roads movement. All I claim for myself is that I am right a part of the time. And that is better than to be dead wrong all the time, like some folks I know.
Time alone is the revealer.
Life is a sequence and the man who does great work has long been in training for it. Work your grief into art and it is gone. Education is simply the encouragement of right habits - the fixing of good habits until they become a part of one's nature, and are exercised automatically. No good sensible working bee listens to the bedbug on the subject of business. To be stupid when inclined and dull when you wish is a boon that goes only with high friendship.