A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.