Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.