Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

To know is not less than to feel.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.