Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.