Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.