Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.