The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.