Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
From George Bancroft
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
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