Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.