Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.