Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

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.

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.