I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.