A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

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.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.