Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.