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

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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.