Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.