Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

A man's fate is his own temper.

Success is the child of audacity.