Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

You must make your own opportunities.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.