Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.