"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life." — Henry Ward Beecher

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.