Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.