In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency; a faith warmer than that of reasoning; a love purer than that of the self; he has been slow to express it; still slower to urge it.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.