The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.