Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.