Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.