Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.