What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.