A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.