When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.