No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.