The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.