If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.