When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.