The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.