Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.