I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.