Folks never understand the folks they hate.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.