Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.