Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

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.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.