Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!