Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.