Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. United States Senator. Biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Henry Clay. From an Address at Faneuil Hall , Boston, April, 1859.
Training is everything.
Author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. From Pudd'nhead Wilson. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.