Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.