Conversation is a game of circles.

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.