Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.