Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny;
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.