As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

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

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.