Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a

If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

Respect the burden.

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.