The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Never utter the truism but live it among men.