Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.