No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.