Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.