The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

We make allowance for necessity.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

A letter does not blush.