Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.