The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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.

Be not a slave of words.