The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.