The genuine essence of truth never dies.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

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

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.