Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.