In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

Genius is full of trash.

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.