Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

A man lives by believing something.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.