Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

There is even the dignity of vice.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.