Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.

The sharp employ the sharp.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.