We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.