Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.