Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.