Poverty has strange bedfellows.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

The classic literature is always modern.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.