Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusion; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.