"The falling drops at last will wear the stone."

"Such evil deeds could religion prompt."

"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."

"If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets."

"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."

"It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

"On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers."

"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."

"ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble."

"Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion."