English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

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.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.