Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

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

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.