To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.