Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.