Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.