It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

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

O reputation! dearer far than life.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.