Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.