What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?