To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

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

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

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.