If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.