No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject