There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.