The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.