For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.