People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.