“Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.