My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
Men moralise among ruins, or, in the throng and tumult of successful cities, recall past visions of urban desolation for prophetic warning.
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own mind.
Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime it taints the course of life in all its dreams.
The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
Indeed, he would sometimes remark, when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Ignorance never settle a question.
Man is more powerful than matter.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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