For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men. - Henry S. Haskins

A soul which is truly in earnest is not above disabling the body to discourage dangerous competition.

There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness.

The rare individual who has learned to govern himself is too fed up with the labor of it to want to govern anybody else.