God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.