A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.