Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.