A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.