The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.