As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.