I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"