To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!