Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.