When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.