It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

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.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.