Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.