It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.