How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.