Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.