What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Mirth is God's medicine.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.