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

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

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

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.