Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.