Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

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

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

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

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.