I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.