We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

We live ruins amid ruins.