If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.