He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.