That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

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

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.