You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Success is the residue of planning.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.