A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive