A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.