I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.
There is no one who does not exaggerate!
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.