Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Religion is using everything for God.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.