It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation…

“Whatever is, is not,” is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.

It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer.

The most effectual of all ways for making ourselves feel morally whole, and for attaining to the greatest heights of self-complacency, is to fall upon others for the sins of which we are ourselves guilty.

More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the …

Forts, cannons and foreign aid will not help unless every man himself knows that he is the guard of his country.