What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.