I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Remembering is for those who have forgotten.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

To have died once is enough.

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.