We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

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

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.