Joseph Kirkland

“The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.”

“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.”

“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”

“The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the patrician who first calls the plebeian a snob.”

“He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in a match-box or a cathedral.”