To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.