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

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

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.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

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.

War? War is an organized bore.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.