All are not friends who smile on you.

There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.