Man is a tool-using animal.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.